


In those five years, I became an international best-selling author. We write within the context of society and the time that we’re writing in. “The sexism and ageism and all ‘isms’ I have seen in the genre industry over the five years between the release of Viciousand this, are definitely in there,” says Schwab. The author put a lot of the feelings surrounding her experiences and observations making the transition from the young adult genre to adult genre fiction worlds into the writing of Vengeful. Vicious was her first adult novel following her success in the young adult fantasy market with series such as Shades of Magic and Monsters of Verity. Schwab obviously knows what it is like to be a woman in this country and world. There couldn’t have been a better time to get a new book that offers emotional catharsis in the form of women wielding power in great and terrible ways, not to mention an example of what it looks like when the misuse of power has real consequences for its perpetrators. Félix described as “the patriarchy testing how far its politics of resentment can go,” aka the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing.

Vengeful came out last week, the same week the women of America were bombarded with what New Yorker writer Doreen St.
